RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Rio Grande do Norte students won twenty medals at the National Olympiad in Brazilian History. The award ceremony took place on Sunday, August 18th, at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in the interior of São Paulo.
There were four gold medals, seven silver medals, and nine bronze medals, representing 27 percent of a total of 75 distributed between three awards.
Of the twenty medals in Rio Grande do Norte, nineteen were awarded to campuses of the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte.
A total of 314 teams from all over the country were invited. In all, fifteen gold medals, 25 silver medals, 35 bronze medals and medals of honor and merit were awarded to the other participants.
Rio Grande do Norte was the state recording the highest number of medalists: twenty in total, followed by Pernambuco (fifteen), Ceará (fourteen), São Paulo (twelve), Bahia (four), Piauí (three), Minas Gerais (two), besides Goiás, Pará, Paraíba, Rio de Janeiro, and Sergipe, who won one medal each.
This year, the National Olympiad in Brazilian History had 73,000 participants in its initial stage. The teams went through six online rounds with a one-week duration each. The final included the presentation of a dissertation on Saturday, August 17th, in which a set of documents was presented with the latest Brazilian newspaper headlines and competitors were asked to produce a text on the topics: violence, exclusion, and the banality of evil.